Lagos bans truck pushers from avenues

The Lagos State Government on Saturday prohibited truck pushers and wheelbarrow administrators in the state, saying their exercises were hostile to the ecological.

In an announcement, the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tunji Bello, said the exercises of truck pushers represented a risk to the Cleaner Lagos Initiative.

Bello said examinations had likewise uncovered that the truck pushers were in charge of a large portion of the illicit dumping of squanders in channels and street medians during the evening which causes flooding.

He said the state government had concluded plans to guarantee that the CLI would cover each region of the state and guarantee that decline are very much pressed and gathered.

The SSG exhorted the occupants to stop from disparaging the truck pushers or hazard arraignment.

He stated, "Security offices in the state have been coordinated to guarantee that those as yet working are captured and indicted by the State Environmental Laws. The law likewise applies to inhabitants who disparage truck pushers.

"What the state government has found is that these arrangement of individuals utilize the night to execute a wide range of obnoxious acts. They dump deny unpredictably on the middle of real streets and expressways. They additionally posture genuine security dangers since they utilize those trucks to conceal arms and ammo and stow away under the appearance of conveying decline to burglarize clueless occupants.

"The state government has announced zero resilience for the exercises of truck pushers and wheelbarrow administrators. The state government would not dither to uphold the law to put a stop to such practice."